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Client
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Brabners Chaffe
Street is a leading North West law firm with offices in Manchester, Liverpool
and Preston.
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| Issue |
With an aging,
poorly integrated infrastructure, Brabners Chaffe Street needed to consolidate
their server infrastructure to improve reliability, simplify management,
deliver an improved service and improve carbon footprint in line with overall
Environmental Policy.
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| Solution
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Having grown through acquisition, Brabners Chaffe Street had inherited a
number of different IT systems which were old, inflexible and not integrated.
As a result, their IT estate was becoming increasingly unreliable and
inflexible. "With all the issues with the IT infrastructure, we decided we
needed to consolidate all the systems, so we put the work out to tender,"
comments Martin Ingham, IT Project Leader at Brabners Chaffe Street.
"ComputerLand won the tender based on the content of their proposals and
technical detail as well as their previous experience of the various
technologies. We knew we could trust ComputerLand to deliver," explains Martin.
ComputerLand provided a full virtualisation of the entire infrastructure. The
solution included VMware, Citrix Presentation Server and a NetApp based SAN
allowing legacy application usage to be maintained as well as consolidation of
the servers needed to support a new Active Directory. This gave Brabners Chaffe
Street the ability to operate their business systems on a reliable, stable and
high availability platform. A failover pair of Citrix Access Gateways were
introduced to provide remote access to all systems via a user profile driven
access policy.
HP blade servers were introduced to cope with the current and future
processing needs and to enable the support of a Citrix Presentation Server farm
for desktop application delivery.
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| Result |
"The virtualisation was amazing. There were no problems whatsoever," highlights
Martin Ingham. "It has transformed the way we work and changed the way we
deliver services to the business. It’s more reliable, easier to manage, enables
us to deliver services more quickly as well as being scalable and adaptable.
It’s excellent." |
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